doper
English
Noun
doper (plural dopers)
- (derogatory) One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
- 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard
- Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers" especially XC skiing.
- 2006, Matt Seaton, Tour de farce, Guardian Unlimited:
- ...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.
- 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard
- (derogatory) One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
- 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs
- I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong.
- 2006, Gene Seymour, “Clerks II”, in Newsday:
- With the Kwik-Mart leveled by fire, Dante and Randal's professional aspirations take a southerly route to a Mooby's fast-food restaurant where dopey dopers Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) have followed with their boombox and illicit activities.
- 2006:, Anthony Cormier, Father: 'We're here to find her body', HeradTribune.com
- Tamara Toy was a blue-eyed daughter of a preacher, growing up good and God-fearing but eventually getting lost along the way, falling in with dopers and felons and a petty crook who stole her heart.
- 2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs
- (dated) A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dôpere, from Old Dutch dōperi. Equivalent to dopen + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdoː.pər/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: do‧per
- Rhymes: -oːpər
Noun
doper m (plural dopers)
- baptiser, one who baptises
- (historical) Anabaptist [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: anabaptist, doperse, herdoper, wederdoper
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: dooper
See also
- dopingzondaar (whereas Dutch doper is a false friend of English doper as drug user)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ.pe/
Audio (file) Audio (CAN) (file)
Conjugation
Conjugation of doper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | doper | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | dopant /dɔ.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | dopé /dɔ.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | dope /dɔp/ |
dopes /dɔp/ |
dope /dɔp/ |
dopons /dɔ.pɔ̃/ |
dopez /dɔ.pe/ |
dopent /dɔp/ |
imperfect | dopais /dɔ.pɛ/ |
dopais /dɔ.pɛ/ |
dopait /dɔ.pɛ/ |
dopions /dɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
dopiez /dɔ.pje/ |
dopaient /dɔ.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | dopai /dɔ.pe/ |
dopas /dɔ.pa/ |
dopa /dɔ.pa/ |
dopâmes /dɔ.pam/ |
dopâtes /dɔ.pat/ |
dopèrent /dɔ.pɛʁ/ | |
future | doperai /dɔ.pʁe/ |
doperas /dɔ.pʁa/ |
dopera /dɔ.pʁa/ |
doperons /dɔ.pʁɔ̃/ |
doperez /dɔ.pʁe/ |
doperont /dɔ.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | doperais /dɔ.pʁɛ/ |
doperais /dɔ.pʁɛ/ |
doperait /dɔ.pʁɛ/ |
doperions /dɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
doperiez /dɔ.pə.ʁje/ |
doperaient /dɔ.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | dope /dɔp/ |
dopes /dɔp/ |
dope /dɔp/ |
dopions /dɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
dopiez /dɔ.pje/ |
dopent /dɔp/ |
imperfect2 | dopasse /dɔ.pas/ |
dopasses /dɔ.pas/ |
dopât /dɔ.pa/ |
dopassions /dɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
dopassiez /dɔ.pa.sje/ |
dopassent /dɔ.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | dope /dɔp/ |
— | dopons /dɔ.pɔ̃/ |
dopez /dɔ.pe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “doper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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